Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era

'Where will all that beauty go?' : a tribute to poet-scholar Tiffany Austin / Emily Ruth Rutter -- Elegiac resistance : an introduction to revisiting the elegy in the Black Lives Matter era / Emily Ruth Rutter, Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott -- Denormativizing elegy : historical and transnational journeying in the Black Lives Matter poetics of Patricia Smith, Aja Monet, and Shane McCrae / Laura Vrana -- The didactic and elegiac modes of Claudia Rankine's Citizen : an American lyric / Maureen Gallagher -- Lucille Clifton's and Claudia Rankine's Elegiac poetics of nature / Anne Rashid -- In terrible fruitfulness : Arthur Jafa's Love is the message, the message is death and the not-lost Southern accent / J. Peter Moore -- Black Lives Matter and legal reconstructions of elegiac forms / Almas Khan -- Anatomizing the body, diagnosing the country : reading the elegies of Patricia Smith / Sequoia Maner -- 'A diagnosis is an ending' : pathology and presence in Bettina Judd's Patient / Deborah M. Mix -- 'A cause divinely spun' : the poet in an age of social unrest / Licia Morrow Hendriks -- Edwidge Danticat's elegiac project : a transnational historiography of U.S. Imperialist state violence / Megan Feifer and Maia Butler -- Loving you is complicated : empire of Language #4 / Brother Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) -- An interview with Amanda Johnston, co-founder of Black Poets Speak Out / Sequoia Maner.